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1996: Partisan Impacts on the Economy: Evidence from Prediction Markets and Close Elections

Erik Snowberg, Justin Wolfers and Eric Zitzewitz

1995: Welfare State Retrenchment: The Partisan Effect Revisited

Bruno Amable, Donatella Gatti and Jan Schumacher

1994: Should Employment Authorities Worry About Mergers and Acquisitions?

David Margolis

1993: Do Poor Children Become Poor Adults? Lessons from a Cross Country Comparison of Generational Earnings Mobility

Miles Corak

1992: Early Retirement Behaviour in the Netherlands: Evidence from a Policy Reform

Rob Euwals, Daniel van Vuuren and Ronald Wolthoff

1991: Prediction Markets in Theory and Practice

Justin Wolfers and Eric Zitzewitz

1990: Wages and the Bargaining Regime under Multi-level Bargaining: Belgium, Denmark and Spain

Robert Plasman, Michael Rusinek and Francois Rycx

1989: Human Capital and Interethnic Marriage Decisions

Delia Furtado

1988: Geographic Proximity, Trade and International Conflict/Cooperation

John Robst, Solomon Polachek and Yuan-Ching Chang

1987: Public Sector Pay and Corruption: Measuring Bribery from Micro Data

Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Klara Sabirianova Peter

1986: Evaluating Alternative Representations of the Choice Sets in Models of Labour Supply

Rolf Aaberge, Ugo Colombino and Tom Wennemo

1985: Beschäftigung Älterer in Deutschland: Der unvollständige Paradigmenwechsel

Werner Eichhorst

1984: The Interaction between Retirement and Job Search: A Global Approach to Older Workers Employment

Jean-Olivier Hairault, Francois Langot and Thepthida Sopraseuth

1983: Self-Selection and the Efficiency of Tournaments

Tor Eriksson, Sabrina Teyssier and Marie Claire Villeval

1982: Is Demand-Pulled Innovation Equally Important in Different Groups of Firms?

Mariacristina Piva and Marco Vivarelli

1981: Screening Disability Insurance Applications

Philip de Jong, Maarten Lindeboom and Bas van der Klaauw

1980: An Analysis of Reservation Wages for the Economically Inactive

David H. Blackaby, Paul Latreille, Philip D. Murphy, Nigel C. O'Leary and Peter J. Sloane

1979: Social Class and Undergraduate Degree Subject in the UK

Massimiliano Bratti

1978: Reputations, Relationships and the Enforcement of Incomplete Contracts

W. Bentley Macleod

1977: Public Implementation Eliminates Detrimental Effects of Punishment on Human Cooperation

Erte Xiao and Daniel Houser

1976: How Far and For How Much? Evidence on Wages and Potential Travel-to-Work Distances from a Survey of the Economically Inactive

Paul Latreille, David H. Blackaby, Philip D. Murphy, Nigel C. O'Leary and Peter J. Sloane

1975: Five Open Questions About Prediction Markets

Justin Wolfers and Eric Zitzewitz

1974: American Idol: Evidence of Same-Race Preferences?

Jungmin Lee

1973: Ottoman Conquests and European Ecclesiastical Pluralism

Murat Iyigun

1972: Competing Approaches to Forecasting Elections: Economic Models, Opinion Polling and Prediction Markets

Andrew Leigh and Justin Wolfers

1971: Employees Who Become Self-Employed: Do Labour Income and Wages Have an Impact?

Pernilla Andersson Joona and Eskil Wadensjö

1970: Legal Default Rules: The Case of Wrongful Discharge Laws

W. Bentley Macleod and Voraprapa Nakavachara

1969: Human Capital Externalities and Growth of High- and Low-Skilled Jobs

Jens Suedekum

1968: Does the Quality of Industrial Relations Matter for the Macro Economy? A Cross-Country Analysis Using Strikes Data

John Addison and Paulino Teixeira

1967: Is There a Social Security Tax Wedge?

Alessandro Cigno

1966: Child Labor, Urban Proximity and Household Composition

Marcel Fafchamps and Jackline Wahba

1965: Time to Eat: Household Production under Increasing Income Inequality

Daniel S. Hamermesh

1964: Bureaucratic Rents and Life Satisfaction

Simon Luechinger, Stephan Meier and Alois Stutzer

1963: Dependent Forms of Self-employment in the UK: Identifying Workers on the Border between Employment and Self-employment

René Böheim and Ulrike Muehlberger

1962: The Risk-Return Trade-Off in Human Capital Investment

Charlotte Christiansen, Juanna Joensen and Helena Nielsen

1961: Nonstandard Forms and Measures of Employment and Unemployment in Transition: A Comparative Study of Estonia, Romania, and Russia

J. David Brown, John Earle, Vladimir Gimpelson, Rostislav Kapeliushnikov, Hartmut Lehmann, Almos Telegdy, Irina Vantu, Ruxandra Visan and Alexandru Voicu

1960: Employment Protection, Product Market Regulation and Firm Selection

Winfried Koeniger and Julien Prat

1959: Social Segregation in Secondary Schools: How Does England Compare with Other Countries?

Stephen Jenkins, John Micklewright and Sylke Schnepf

1958: Reassessing the Standard of Living in the Soviet Union: An Analysis Using Archival and Anthropometric Data

Elizabeth Brainerd

1957: Product Markets and Paychecks: Deregulation's Effect on the Compensation Structure in Banking

Abigail Wozniak

1956: Merit Aid and Sorting: The Effects of HOPE-Style Scholarships on College Ability Stratification

Christopher Cornwell and David Mustard

1955: Indirect Effects of an Aid Program: The Case of Progresa and Consumption

Manuela Angelucci and Giacomo De Giorgi

1954: Educational Differences in the Migration Responses of Young Workers to Local Labor Market Conditions

Abigail Wozniak

1953: The Effects of State-Sponsored Merit Scholarships on Course Selection and Major Choice in College

Christopher Cornwell, Kyung Hee Lee and David Mustard

1952: What Happiness Research Can Tell Us About Self-Control Problems and Utility Misprediction

Alois Stutzer and Bruno Frey

1951: Are the Factors Affecting Dropout Behavior Related to Initial Enrollment Intensity for College Undergraduates?

Leslie Stratton, Dennis M. O'Toole and James Wetzel

1950: Subjective Income Expectations and Income Risk

Xavi Ramos and Christian Schluter

1949: Uses and Abuses of Empirical Evidence in the Death Penalty Debate

John Donohue and Justin Wolfers

1948: The Portfolio Choices of Hispanic Couples

Deborah Cobb-Clark and Vincent A. Hildebrand

1947: Rates of Return to Degrees across British Regions

Nigel C. O'Leary and Peter J. Sloane

1946: Product Market Deregulation and the U.S. Employment Miracle

Monique Ebell and Christian Haefke

1945: The Substitutability of Labor of Selected Ethnic Groups in the US Labor Market

Martin Kahanec

1944: Diagnosing Discrimination: Stock Returns and CEO Gender

Justin Wolfers

1943: Intergenerational Mobility, Human Capital Transmission and the Earnings of Second-Generation Immigrants in Sweden

Mats Hammarstedt and Mårten Palme

1942: Self-Selection in Migration and Returns to Unobservable Skills

Benoit Dostie and Pierre Leger

1941: Unequal Pay or Unequal Employment? A Cross-Country Analysis of Gender Gaps

Claudia Olivetti and Barbara Petrongolo

1940: Social Networks in the Boardroom

Francis Kramarz and David Thesmar

1939: Choice and Success of Job Search Methods

Andrea Weber and Helmut Mahringer

1938: American Exceptionalism in a New Light: A Comparison of Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in the Nordic Countries, the United Kingdom and the United States

Markus Jantti, Bernt Bratsberg, Knut Røed, Oddbjørn Raaum, Robin Naylor, Eva Österbacka, Anders Bjorklund and Tor Eriksson

1937: The Return to the Firm Investment in Human Capital

Rita Almeida and Pedro Carneiro

1936: Corruption and the Shadow Economy: An Empirical Analysis

Axel Dreher and Friedrich Schneider

1935: The Returns to Seniority in France (and Why Are They Lower than in the United States?)

Magali Beffy, Moshe Buchinsky, Denis Fougere, Thierry Kamionka and Francis Kramarz

1934: Head-content or Headcount? Short-term Skilled Labour Movements as a Source of Growth

Max Tani

1933: Migrating Workers and Jobs: A Challenge to the European Social Model?

Simon Commander, Axel Heitmueller and Laura Tyson

1932: Can Parents Afford to Work? Childcare Costs, Tax-Benefit Policies and Work Incentives

Herwig Immervoll and David Barber

1931: Evaluating the Performance of the Search and Matching Model

Eran Yashiv

1930: Cross-sectional Earnings Risk and Occupational Sorting: The Role of Risk Attitudes

Holger Bonin, Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David B. Huffman and Uwe Sunde

1929: Satisfaction with Democracy and the Environment in Western Europe: A Panel Analysis

Alexander Wagner and Friedrich Schneider

1928: Civic Attitudes and the Design of Labor Market Institutions: Which Countries Can Implement the Danish Flexicurity Model?

Yann Algan and Pierre Cahuc

1927: A Human Capital Model of the Effects of Abilities and Family Background on Optimal Schooling Levels

Tracy Regan, Galen Burghardt and Ronald Oaxaca

1926: Wages and the Risk of Displacement

Anabela Carneiro and Pedro Portugal

1925: The Social Impact of Globalization in the Developing Countries

Eddy Lee and Marco Vivarelli

1924: The Expanding Workweek? Understanding Trends in Long Work Hours Among U.S. Men, 1979-2004

Peter Kuhn and Fernando Lozano

1923: Israel, the Palestinian Factions, and the Cycle of Violence

David Jaeger and M. Daniele Paserman

1922: Employment Dynamics and the Structure of Labor Adjustment Costs

Jose Varejao and Pedro Portugal

1921: The Gender Wage Gap in Four Countries

Anne Daly, Akira Kawaguchi, Xin Meng and Karen Mumford

1920: Work Experience as a Source of Specification Error in Earnings Models: Implications for Gender Wage Decompositions

Tracy Regan and Ronald Oaxaca

1919: The Long-Term Effects of a Generous Income Support Program: Unemployment Insurance in New Brunswick and Maine, 1940-1991

Peter Kuhn and Chris Riddell

1918: Political Parties and Network Formation

Topi Miettinen and Panu Poutvaara

1917: An Extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition Technique to Logit and Probit Models

Robert Fairlie

1916: Happiness and the Human Development Index: Australia Is Not a Paradox

Andrew Leigh and Justin Wolfers

1915: The Economics of Dual Job Holding: A Job Portfolio Model of Labor Supply

Francesco Renna and Ronald Oaxaca

1914: CEO Turnover, Firm Performance and Enterprise Reform in China: Evidence from New Micro Data

Takao Kato and Cheryl Long

1913: Minimum Wages and Firm Profitability

Mirko Draca, Stephen Machin and John van Reenen

1912: Do Home Computers Improve Educational Outcomes? Evidence from Matched Current Population Surveys and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997

Daniel Beltran, Kuntal Das and Robert Fairlie

1911: Measuring the Value of a Statistical Life: Problems and Prospects

Orley Ashenfelter

1910: Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance, and Self-employment Proclivity: A Bi-national Study of Immigrants

Amelie Constant and Klaus Zimmermann

1909: The Scots May Be Brave But They Are Neither Healthy Nor Happy

David Bell and David Blanchflower

1908: Labour Supply and Childcare for British Mothers in Two-Parent Families: A Structural Approach

Antonia Parera-Nicolau and Karen Mumford

1907: Specialization, Outsourcing and Wages

Jakob Munch and Jan Rose Skaksen

1906: Education Policy and Equality of Opportunity

Gabriela Schütz, Heinrich Ursprung and Ludger Woessmann

1905: Do Professionals Choke Under Pressure?

Thomas Dohmen

1904: Search Equilibrium, Production Parameters and Social Returns to Education: Theory and Estimation

Christian Holzner and Andrey Launov

1903: On Human Capital Formation with Exit Options: Comment and New Results

Panu Poutvaara

1902: The Impact of Labor Markets on the Transmission of Monetary Policy in an Estimated DSGE Model

Kai Christoffel, Keith Kuester and Tobias Linzert

1901: Does Educational Tracking Affect Performance and Inequality? Differences-in-Differences Evidence across Countries

Eric A. Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann

1900: Big Fish in Small Pond or Small Fish in Big Pond? An Analysis of Job Mobility

Ana Rute Cardoso

1899: Macroeconomic Derivatives: An Initial Analysis of Market-Based Macro Forecasts, Uncertainty and Risk

Refet Gürkaynak and Justin Wolfers

1898: Cross-Sectional Heterogeneity in Price-Cost Margins and the Extent of Rent Sharing at the Sector and Firm Level in France

Sabien Dobbelaere and Jacques Mairesse

1897: Gender Differences in Educational Attainment: Evidence on the Role of the Tracking Age from a Finnish Quasi-Experiment

Tuomas Pekkarinen